A small, complete example of the issue
Setup
% virtualenv venv
New python executable in venv/bin/python2.7
Also creating executable in venv/bin/python
Installing setuptools, pip, wheel...done.
% . venv/bin/activate
% pip list
You are using pip version 7.0.3, however version 9.0.1 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command.
pip (7.0.3)
setuptools (17.0)
wheel (0.24.0)
hpeters@MAC-025s-MacBook-Pro-2 /tmp % pip install -U pip setuptools wheel
You are using pip version 7.0.3, however version 9.0.1 is available.
You should consider upgrading via the 'pip install --upgrade pip' command.
Collecting pip
Using cached pip-9.0.1-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting setuptools
Using cached setuptools-28.8.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Collecting wheel
Using cached wheel-0.29.0-py2.py3-none-any.whl
Installing collected packages: pip, setuptools, wheel
Found existing installation: pip 7.0.3
Uninstalling pip-7.0.3:
Successfully uninstalled pip-7.0.3
Found existing installation: setuptools 17.0
Uninstalling setuptools-17.0:
Successfully uninstalled setuptools-17.0
Found existing installation: wheel 0.24.0
Uninstalling wheel-0.24.0:
Successfully uninstalled wheel-0.24.0
Successfully installed pip-9.0.1 setuptools-28.8.0 wheel-0.29.0
The issue
One cannot use pip wheel to build pandas 0.19.0 and higher:
% pip wheel "pandas==0.19.0" --no-binary :all:
Collecting pandas==0.19.0
Using cached pandas-0.19.0.tar.gz
Collecting python-dateutil (from pandas==0.19.0)
Using cached python-dateutil-2.6.0.tar.gz
Collecting pytz>=2011k (from pandas==0.19.0)
Using cached pytz-2016.7.zip
Collecting numpy>=1.7.0 (from pandas==0.19.0)
Using cached numpy-1.11.2.tar.gz
Collecting six>=1.5 (from python-dateutil->pandas==0.19.0)
Using cached six-1.10.0.tar.gz
Building wheels for collected packages: pandas, python-dateutil, pytz, numpy, six
Running setup.py bdist_wheel for pandas ... error
Complete output from command /private/tmp/venv/bin/python2.7 -u -c "import setuptools, tokenize;__file__='/private/var/folders/kn/3fznwwr15z9chdd30p3q4qm80000gp/T/pip-build-RJ3_w0/pandas/setup.py';f=getattr(tokenize, 'open', open)(__file__);code=f.read().replace('\r\n', '\n');f.close();exec(compile(code, __file__, 'exec'))" bdist_wheel -d /var/folders/kn/3fznwwr15z9chdd30p3q4qm80000gp/T/tmpVWnJJSpip-wheel-:
running bdist_wheel
running build
......
running build_ext
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<string>", line 1, in <module>
File "/private/var/folders/kn/3fznwwr15z9chdd30p3q4qm80000gp/T/pip-build-RJ3_w0/pandas/setup.py", line 680, in <module>
**setuptools_kwargs)
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.12_2/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/distutils/core.py", line 151, in setup
dist.run_commands()
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.12_2/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 953, in run_commands
self.run_command(cmd)
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.12_2/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 972, in run_command
cmd_obj.run()
File "/private/tmp/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages/wheel/bdist_wheel.py", line 179, in run
self.run_command('build')
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.12_2/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/distutils/cmd.py", line 326, in run_command
self.distribution.run_command(command)
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.12_2/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 972, in run_command
cmd_obj.run()
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.12_2/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/distutils/command/build.py", line 127, in run
self.run_command(cmd_name)
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.12_2/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/distutils/cmd.py", line 326, in run_command
self.distribution.run_command(command)
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.12_2/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/distutils/dist.py", line 972, in run_command
cmd_obj.run()
File "/usr/local/Cellar/python/2.7.12_2/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/distutils/command/build_ext.py", line 339, in run
self.build_extensions()
File "/private/var/folders/kn/3fznwwr15z9chdd30p3q4qm80000gp/T/pip-build-RJ3_w0/pandas/setup.py", line 371, in build_extensions
build_ext.build_extensions(self)
File "/private/var/folders/kn/3fznwwr15z9chdd30p3q4qm80000gp/T/pip-build-RJ3_w0/pandas/setup.py", line 129, in build_extensions
raise ImportError('Building pandas requires cython')
ImportError: Building pandas requires cython
----------------------------------------
Failed building wheel for pandas
Running setup.py clean for pandas
Running setup.py bdist_wheel for python-dateutil ... done
Stored in directory: /private/tmp
Running setup.py bdist_wheel for pytz ... done
Stored in directory: /private/tmp
Running setup.py bdist_wheel for numpy ... |^error
Failed building wheel for numpy
Running setup.py clean for numpy
^C Failed cleaning build dir for numpy
Running setup.py bdist_wheel for six ... done
Stored in directory: /private/tmp
Successfully built python-dateutil pytz six
Failed to build pandas numpy
ERROR: Failed to build one or more wheels
Expected Output
With pandas 0.18 it is possible to build a wheel using pip wheel
% pip wheel "pandas==0.18.0" --no-binary :all:
Collecting pandas==0.18.0
Downloading pandas-0.18.0.tar.gz (7.1MB)
100% |################################| 7.1MB 169kB/s
Collecting python-dateutil (from pandas==0.18.0)
Downloading python-dateutil-2.6.0.tar.gz (258kB)
100% |################################| 266kB 3.2MB/s
Collecting pytz>=2011k (from pandas==0.18.0)
Downloading pytz-2016.7.zip (497kB)
100% |################################| 501kB 2.3MB/s
Collecting numpy>=1.7.0 (from pandas==0.18.0)
Using cached numpy-1.11.2.tar.gz
Collecting six>=1.5 (from python-dateutil->pandas==0.18.0)
Downloading six-1.10.0.tar.gz
Building wheels for collected packages: pandas, python-dateutil, pytz, numpy, six
Running setup.py bdist_wheel for pandas ... done
....
Successfully built pandas python-dateutil pytz numpy six
Discussion
I believe that this is due to Pandas not spelling out all of its build-time-requirements (like Cython) in the setup_requires section.
Comment From: jreback
this was already fixed with 0.19.1 see #14204